missheidi: "whoa! the captain that was held hostage by the pirates was from two towns over from my mom in Vermont!"

And this, from former Seven Days music editor Casey Rae-Hunter (Twittering as CaseyContrarian): "Weird. Why did I not know that Capt. Richard Phillips was from Underhill, VT? (Lived in Burlington for many years.)"

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